Lifestyle By Agnieszka Rakoczy

2006-06-18

Sax for nine

Often seen as the coolest of instruments, the saxophone, and jazz in general, has been short changed in Cyprus. One man is hoping to change that

24 hours with the Reverend Clive Handford

2006-06-18

The flying bishop

It’s a non-stop journey for the priest whose parish stretches from Cyprus across the Middle East and takes in one of the world’s most dangerous communities

Diary By Agnieszka Rakoczy

2006-06-18

D?j? vu in Dublin
It was deja vu at Heathrow last Sunday. I was standing in a massive queue waiting to be x-rayed and surveilled for terrorism and transfer and suddenly a thought in my mind didn’t want to go away.

The butcher’s cleaning herb

2006-06-18

Butcher’s Broom; (Ruscus aculeatus) syn. Box holly. A shrub member of the Liliaceae, growing to about 1.2m in barren rocky areas and native to temperate Europe. It is an evergreen which produces a clump of stems each year; these contain wide, flat, dark green leaf-like stalks that have a spiny tip and are known as cladodes, and there are tiny violet flowers that turn into bright red berries.

Down Town

2006-06-18

Giannis Argyrou

Beef Rolls

500g beef fillet
50g green pepper
50g red pepper
50g courgette
50g onion
100ml teriyaki sauce
30g butter
freshly ground pepper

l Wash all the vegetables and cut in strips; stir-fry in olive oil. Cut the beef fillet in thick slices of 1cm; season with ground pepper.

Recipes with Maria Socratous

2006-06-18

Can you couscous?
There’s more to crushed wheat than serving it with yoghurt

Couscous salad
Serves 4

3 tbsp olive oil
5 spring onions, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
350ml vegetable stock
175g couscous
2 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
4 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
4 tbsp fresh mint, chopped

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.